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Title: Journal, 1955 - 1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War by Mouloud Feraoun, Mary Ellen Wolfe, Claude Fouillade, James D. Le Sueur, James D. Le Sueur, James D. Le Sueur ISBN: 0-8032-6903-X Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Appropriate reading at a time like this
Comment: First, I will comment on the book itself from an American point of view. The book is not easy to read because it is not a book: it is the author's journal he kept during the French Algerian War. Knowing that still, his journal entries, which at the beginning were frequent and detailed, were focused on keeping track of who was killed, tortured or who was doing the killings. It was as if the author, Mr. F.(his notation of using people's initials to hide their identity from I suppose the French secret police), was keeping a testimony of the murders occurring all around him as evidence. This makes for dull reading; however, given the events of 9-11, I made a valiant effort to immerse myself into the author's mind and try to understand this incredibly brutal civil war.
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Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Reading On Algeria For English Reader
Comment: There are a few important works on the Algerian Civil War available for the English reader. Franz Fannon, Alistair Horne's history, the film "Battle of Algiers, and recently Feraoun's diary are the ones that readily come to mind. Feraoun was a western educated Algerian and well accquainted with the French. His desire for an independent Algeria was strong, but tempered by a strong sense of historical reality. He reveals the day to day impact of the violence. It is in this respect that the work is most moving, and reveals the senselessness and degradation that occurs to all people involved, Feraoun eventually a victim himself. An essential view of the psychological costs of guerrilla and anti-colonial war.
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Title: The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria 1955-1957 by Paul Aussaressess, Paul Aussaresses ISBN: 192963112X Publisher: Enigma Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Agony of Algeria by Martin Stone ISBN: 0231109113 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title:Battle of Algiers ASIN: 6302737249 Publisher: Rhino Video Pub. Date: 21 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.98 |
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Title: The Algerian Civil War by Luis Martinez, John Entelis ISBN: 0231119968 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.50 |
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Title: Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History by Benjamin Stora, Jane Marie Todd, William B. Quandt ISBN: 0801437156 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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